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A day exploring the totally amazing life sciences. Experience our science tattoos, try out our fully animated 3D anatomy t-shirts which will teleport you inside the body, build your own good bacteria from felt and polystyrene and discover how your remarkable body fights diseases and repairs itself, along with using some high tech microscopes to delve into a world unseen by the naked eye! There will be plenty of hand-on activities throughout the day, including X-ray body painting too.

In keeping with the science-orientated ethos of the festival, Stewart Brewing is hoping to tackle the monstrous subject of science by hosting an educative yet easy-going evening to enlighten you about the chemistry of brewing.

Watch this family favourite from Disney Pixar and then learn all about the coral reefs Nemo calls home with scientists from the University of Edinburgh. Fun ocean-based crafts are also sure to help this evening go swimmingly! Film synopsis: After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

A night all about the Science of Zombies. Including zombie face and body painting, jelly brain dissections, a zombie parade and the film screening of "Warm Bodies" (12A) Dress code: Zombie! Film synopsis: After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.